PRUZHANY UYZED RESEARCH SOCIETY (PURS)
NEWSLETTER
Volume 1-2
December 27, 2001
This issue of
newsletter features Yzkor Books and new postings to
our web site.
We are indebted to our
volunteers for their remarkable accomplishment in translating, typing,
proofreading, editing, indexing and formatting Memory Stories. In alphabetical order they are:
Leonard
Maletz
Louise
Silverman Maletz
Herbert
Maletz
Status of Yzkor Project:
1. Malch - This story is completed and is
posted on our Web Site.
2. Shershev – This story is
completed and is posted on our Web Site.
3. Kartuz Bereza - This has recently started, the index is complete
is posted. Translation, Editing,
and Proofreading is about 25% complete and is
posted.
4. Pruzany – Work on this story has been
underway for some time. 100 pages have
been translated
5. Selets - Is underway and is about 15%
completed.
6. Lineve – Started with very little accomplished
at this time.
Status of Research
Activity:
Our paid researcher has been very
busy and productive. Two major research
assignments are completed:
Revision Lists (2 year comparative censuses of males for determining
military draft availability)
for the years 1806vs1811and for the years 1850vs1857 have been formatted
and posted. All of the PURS shtetls are included. These revision lists contain over
3000 names.
Volunteers have completed the following, all of which have been
formatted and posted.:
An index of names mentioned in the Kartuz
Bereza Yzkor books (over
3000 names).
A list of emigrants to
Indexes of names of immigrants in the
Business directories for the years 1895, 1899, 1903,
1911 and 1930
Other lists including: Bereza
Residents Before WWII, Residents Who Died in Ghettos
and in the War against Nazis, Soldiers in the War of 1904-5,
Status of Images:
Pictures of long ago and more recently, including 280
images PURS shtetls & villages have been posted
to our web site, including pictures, maps, documents and general information
Call for member’s
assistance:
Are there any members of their families who would
share pictures, postcards, and letters from the PURS area. We are hopeful of adding much more to our
Images section (particularly are from Malch, Selets and Lineve) in the coming
year.
Do you have some time on your hands? – we could use volunteers to proofread English text. Also we need Spanish to English translators.
We encourage all
members to keep checking our web site that is continually updated with new
information.